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Open Image ModalThis undated picture shows a painting by Kanwal Krishna dated probably in 1930s of a young Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, born in 1935), the traditional religious and temporal head of Tibet\'s Buddhist clergy. (credit:Kanwal Kirshna / AFP / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA speech by the 14th Dalai Lama, circa 1955. (credit:FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalJan. 21, 1957 at Palace Ground square, Kolkata, India: the Dalai Lama gives his blessing to a crowd gathered for a farewell ceremony. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image Modal1959: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, seated on his throne and wearing the gold peaked cap which is his crown, smiles while giving an audience in Lhasa, Tibet. An assistant monk stands at his side. (credit:Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama poses for a photo in October 1967 in India. (credit:Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalIn 1973, the Dalai Lama visited the SOS Children\'s Village of Hinterbrühl in Austria. In the photo, he stands by Hermann Gmeiner, the founder of SOS Children\'s Villages. (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFeb. 1974: the Dalai Lama officiates at the Kalachakra Initiation Ceremony held in Bodh Gaya (place of the Buddha) in the state of Bihar in northeastern India. (credit:Ernst Haas / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama poses with his wax portrait in the Grand Hall at Madame Tussaud\'s in November 1993 in London. The Dalai Lama brought a pair of his own glasses for the model on his one-day visit to London. (credit:Gerry Penny / AFP / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama at the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Beverly Hills, California on Aug. 2, 1996. (credit:Steve Granitz / WireImage)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama greets the media on Capitol Hill before meeting with congressional leaders on June 20, 2000 in Washington. (credit:Michael Smith / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama appears at the University of California Los Angeles to give a public teaching May 26, 2001. (credit:David McNew / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama takes part in a Hongi, a traditional Māori greeting in New Zealand, on on May 27, 2002. (credit:Robert Patterson / Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalThe Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference while visiting Frankfurt, Germany. (credit:Mehmet Kaman / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)